‘Better Call Saul’: This Week’s ‘Breaking Bad’ Callbacks And ‘X-Files’ Connections
That Shot, Though!
Let’s admire the cinematography in this shot for a moment, which reminded Vince Gilligan of The X-Files, where he got his start. “If Mulder and Scully had held hands like this, people would’ve shit their … ” Gilligan said in the Insider Podcast. Gilligan, of course, got his television start on The X-Files, and the director of this episode, John Shiban, was a also a long-time director and executive producer on The X-Files and the spin-off, The Lone Gunman.
In fact, it was John Shiban’s son who played Mulder and Scully’s baby in The X-Files. That baby is 16 years old now.
More: http://uproxx.com/tv/better-call-saul-callbacks-easter-eggs-sunk-costs/
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Well, they did. A few times, actually. It made me think of the Fight The Future hand hold. ;3
Let’s admire the cinematography in this shot for a moment, which reminded Vince Gilligan of The X-Files, where he got his start. “If Mulder and Scully had held hands like this, people would’ve shit their … ” Gilligan said in the Insider Podcast. Gilligan, of course, got his television start on The X-Files, and the director of this episode, John Shiban, was a also a long-time director and executive producer on The X-Files and the spin-off, The Lone Gunman.
In fact, it was John Shiban’s son who played Mulder and Scully’s baby in The X-Files. That baby is 16 years old now.
More: http://uproxx.com/tv/better-call-saul-callbacks-easter-eggs-sunk-costs/
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Well, they did. A few times, actually. It made me think of the Fight The Future hand hold. ;3